Alien ant farm - forgive & forget

The bacterial explosion in the beetle’s corpse will be the worm’s food source , and it will also mate and produce thousands of young from within the rotting husk. Even more unsettling is how these worms actually get into their hosts to begin with. As larvae, hundreds of them will converge and “glue” themselves together into a single, squirming “worm tower,” which waits for a beetle to pass overhead. It’s one big worm made out of other worms, one of the only structures of its kind in nature.